Ambience (Adams)
General Info
Year: 1988
Duration: c. 8:15
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: HoneyRock
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00 | Score Only - $0.00
Movements
Instrumentation
Player I - VII: wind chimes(5 each of glass, metal, shell, wood & ceramic), conch shells(3)
Program Notes
premiere: 9 March 1991, Houston, Texas, Cambiata Soloists, Daniel Adams, director
Review
This is a minimalistic percussion ensemble for seven players, each with five sets of wind chimes (glass, metal, shell, wood, ceramic). Three players also use conch shells (blown). The eight-minute work is to be played at a constant p--mp dynamic level, with the sounds of the various wind chimes fading in and out with no apparent metric accentuation. The recommended physical setup calls for partial enclosure of the audience by four players, with the conch players as far behind the others as possible--the more widespread the spatial orientation the better. This work requires an understanding of the composer's intent plus a degree of individual dynamic control, and it is recommended as a contrasting "mood" piece on concerts by advanced high school or university percussion ensembles. - John Baldwin, December 1997[1]
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Works for Percussion by this Composer
Alloy - Percussion Trio
Ambience (Adams) - Percussion Septet
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Camaraderie - Timpani; Percussion Septet
Collage - Multiple Percussion; Piano
Concerto for Euphonium and Percussion Quintet - Percussion Quintet; Euphonium
Dissolve - Percussion Octet
Echogenesis - Percussion Quartet
Equipoise - Multiple Percussion; Saxophone
Five Elementary Etudes - Multiple Percussion
Focus - Vibraphone; Bassoon
Isorhythmic Concerto - Multiple Percussion; Wind Ensemble
Khromas Diabolus - Percussion Quintet; Trombone
Lignumvitae - Percussion Trio
Performance Studies for Two, Volume 1 - Snare Drum
Protagonist - Tom-tom; Percussion Trio
Reverberations - Timpani
Road Traversed and Reversed - Marimba Duo
Shadow on Mist - Multiple Percussion; Flute
Shadow on Mist (Ensemble) - Percussion Quintet; Flute
Stratum - Marimba Quartet
Syzygy - Marimba; Violin
Talea - Percussion Sextet
Tamboo Bamboo - Steel Drum; Percussion Orchestra
Three Movements for Unaccompanied Marimba - Marimba
Three Subtropical Vistas - Marimba, Vibraphone, Voice
Times Two - Percussion Duo
Twilight Remembered - Multiple Percussion; Flute
Two Antiphonal Portraits - Percussion Ensemble (12)
Variation sans theme - Snare Drum
Windward Passage - Marimba, Vibraphone, String Quartet
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